Dressed in habits like novice monks and nuns, the youngsters came to the Our Lady of Salvation church to take first communion, a rare sight in a city where their minority is keeping an increasingly low profile. As proud parents looked on, the latest generation of one of the world's oldest Christian communities prayed for an end to the bitter civil war that threatens to drive them from their ancestral homeland. With this nervous prayer of hope, 59 Iraqi boys and girls became full members of...

Dreadful things happen and, if we survive mostly intact, we tend to omit the truly horrendous moment when it occurs to us that we might die. Davis' wife lost a thumb before being pushed aside by her husband, who had most of his face chewed off along with all his fingers, his left foot and parts of his genitals and buttocks. James Davis who had, with his wife, gone to the facility bearing a birthday cake for an orphaned chimp they rescued in Africa back in the 1960s. This then is a story...

Mr Minority had better clue into the fact that there are millions of people who smoke pot regularly and are tired of making criminals millionaires and multi billionaires whose only purpose on earth is to put money into the re-election campaigns of people that won't kill their cash cow, namely the marijuana trade. so what? Cheeseburgers are bad if you eat enough of them, but they are not illegal! To justify the prohibition of marijuana, it must be shown to be really bad. Regarding...

Decisions were made to again support the display in the festival of Northern Lights in the upcoming year, and to donate enough funds to the Children's Aid Society to send three children to a week-long series of day camp experiences this summer. Other fundraisers sponsored in recent weeks have been the sale of cookbooks and flower bulbs, each reported to be very positive efforts. Ed Manners proposed the association should meet more often and the executive is working on such a program which...

SR.com: Some of prosecutor's e-mails released. E-mails released Tuesday highlight snippets of the internal strife that helped lead to the collapse of a Kootenai County juvenile drug court two years ago and how county Prosecutor Bill Douglas and drug court administrator Marina Kalani tried to save the program and her job. E-mails released Tuesday highlight snippets of the internal strife that helped lead to the collapse of a Kootenai County juvenile drug court two years ago and how county...